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National Security Files

CIA Information Report
9/24/1963

National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/22/63-10/6/63, CIA

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NH NHU INTENTION, To DEAL: WITH VO “DATE DISTR. ; ‘oh SEPTEMBER 1963
i uc, ATTEMP®.S 10F PHAM NGOC. THAO, ATOCVARRANGE if Dis 78) Cee ne hee
to “AIR FORCE, syrront FOR A COUP DIETAT, °° PRECEDENCE . ROUTINE

__ REFERENCES

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T48. PROBABLY TRUE THAT THAO HAS PLANNED a COUP AND HAS S UGHT _VNAF
THE SUBSTANCELOG THAOMSATALKS 4 “WITH O TEMEAND’ iNHUZ CONCERNING
THE VIET. CONG _AND Nauts PLANS FOR MAJOR. CHANGES IN THE SOUTH
UDGE OHI Ti 1s. DOuBTtRULLT HAT WHO! ‘WOULD
ouGH THAO 1s APPARENTLY. CONVINCED THAT “NHU .
UCH, AGT. ONS | CLT, i JE-| THAIE AMBASSADOR LODGE WALKED WITH THAO
“eg SEPTEMBER co LTEUTENANT COLONEL . PHAM NGOC .

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NHU'S PLANS. ) ‘ACCORDING To THAO, “ NHU!S CONTACT WITH THE: COMMUNI STS
WAS VIA THE POLISH DELEGATION: TO. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL COMMISSION,
THAO SAID THAT NHU'S PLAN ‘TO. DEAL. WITH THE COMMUNISTS. MUST BE

| FORESTALLED. | aes Cee oe

: Se ‘ON: 28 SEPTEMBER 1963 THAO ‘SPOKE. 10. a -RANKING VIETNAMESE .

o> AIR FORCE. (VNAF) OFFICER CONCERNING THE POSSIBILITY OF THE - VNAF
 SupPORT NG A COUP. DLETAT AGAINST THE DIEM REGIME, _THAO. SAID THAT:

7: | CAE THE VNAF_ WOULD: NOT BE: INVOLVED | iN, “ANY. FIGHTING BECAUSE’
RESISTANCE By, GOVERNMENT: FORCES" WOULD BE: “OVERCOME IN THREE. HOURS.

= Be THE: ‘COUP LEADERS: ‘WANTED. THE: VNAF To. HINDER OR, ‘STOP THE

FORCES: OF BRIGADIER: ‘GENERAL . HUYNH ‘VAN CAO, VV. CORPS: COMMANDER.

FROM ASSISTING Forces LOYAL TO. THE: DIEM REGIME. -
Q,. STOP. CAO, ALTHOUGH: HE BELIEVED

THAT, CAO M MIGHT HT, NOT, NOW. SUPPORT, THE, PRESIDENT. AS, “STRONGLY,.AS, AN

& THE. east HE. SAVE JHE, FOLLOWING, ;REASONS FOR. THIS ‘JUDGEMENT 3
A. | CAO DID. NOT. ESTABLISH MARTIAL LAN IN: THE, lV. CORPS AFTER:

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